Team

Lisa McNulty, Producing Artistic Director

Lisa McNulty is an award-winning Broadway, off-Broadway and regional theater producer in her fifth season as Producing Artistic Director of WP Theater. Lisa comes to WP from Manhattan Theatre Club, where she served as Artistic Line Producer for eight seasons, working on more than 30 productions both on and off Broadway, including plays by Lynn Nottage, Sarah Treem, Harvey Fierstein, and Tarell Alvin McCraney, among many, many others. Lisa has a long history with WP Theater. She was originally hired by the company’s founder, Julia Miles, as the Literary Manager from 1997-2000, where she dramaturged work by María Irene Fornés, Julie Hébert, and Karen Hartman, among others, and in 2004, she returned to WP as its Associate Artistic Director. From 2000-2004 she was McCarter Theater’s Producing Associate, and her independent producing career includes projects with Sarah Ruhl, Todd Almond, Lucy Thurber and Lear Debessonet.

Michael Sag, Managing Director

Michael Sag was most recently the general manager for Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 62nd season which included four world premieres, one American premiere and two revivals. Prior to that, Michael worked in commercial general management on and off Broadway since 2001 including: It’s Only A Play; Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Broadway/Tour), The Visit; Blithe Spirit (Broadway/Tour), You Can’t Take It With You, All The Way, Bullets Over Broadway, Under My Skin; The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Broadway/Tour), The Glass Menagerie; Anything Goes (Tour), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Glengarry Glen Ross, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, La Bete, The Mountaintop, The Pee-wee Herman Show, The Scottsboro Boys, Relatively Speaking, Chinglish, Driving Miss Daisy, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Race, August: Osage County (Broadway/Tour), The Producers, Hairspray, Little Shop of Horrors, Sweeney Todd, and Stomp. In addition, from 2006 to 2009, Michael headed a representative office in Shanghai out of which several Asian touring projects were launched including I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The King and I, The Sound of Music, and SpongeBob Square Pants Live! Michael is currently an adjunct professor at Montclair State University.

Tamilla Woodard, Associate Artistic Director/Co-Leader: Directors Lab

Tamilla Woodard is the co-founder of PopUP Theatrics, a partnership creating immersive and participatory theatre for audiences in Europe, South America, Mexico and the US since 2007. She also serves as Artistic Director of Working Theater’s community initiative project: Five Boroughs/One City and is a former Time Warner Foundation Fellow of the WP Directors Lab, Alumnus of The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, Audrey Fellow at New Georges and a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop. Recent work includes: James Scruggs’ 3/Fifths at 3 Legged Dog, PolkaDots: The Cool Kids Musical with The Atlantic Theatre Company, Harbur Gate by Kathleen Cahill at Salt Lake Acting, Melisa Tien’s Yellow Card Red Card at the New Ohio, Beto O’Byrne’s Loving and Loving at Stella Adler, Miami Motel Stories, a site-specific immersive in Miami’s Historic Little Havana. This past season her work on the critically acclaimed Immersive 3/Fifths was called “Visually and conceptually stunning” by the New York Times. The Miami Herald called Miami Motel Stories “An ingeniously sculpted experience …that doesn’t ask us to suspend disbelief; it begs us to believe in our humanity”. She is a graduate of The Yale School of Drama’s Acting program and is the recipient of The Josephine Abady Award from The League of Professional Theatre Women and The Charles Bowden Award from New Dramatists.

Rachel Karpf, Artistic Producer/Co-Leader: Playwrights Lab

Rachel Karpf’s recent projects include the Bushwick Starr world premiere and WP/Starr Off-Broadway remount of Kate Benson’s [PORTO] (dir. Lee Sunday Evans), Lisa Lampanelli’s Stuffed (dir. Jackson Gay), curation of the Public Theater Mobile Unit’s pop-up performances, and Spare Rib, a theatrical fundraiser with Gloria Steinem. As Associate Director of Page 73: You Got Older (2 OBIE Awards),Grounded, and When January Feels Like Summer. For Beth Morrison Projects: Todd Almond’s Kansas City Choir Boy with Courtney Love (A.R.T.) and Persona (MIT/National Sawdust). She has produced, curated, and developed new works with LCT3, NYTW, New Georges, 13P, and with artists including The Institute for Psychogeographic Adventure.Rachel was previously Senior Producer for the international collective Guerilla Science, where she created large-scale immersive performances at theaters, music festivals, pop-up events, dinners, and dance parties. She is a former WP Producers Lab Fellow and a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Gary Levinson, Production Manager

Gary Levinson started at WP Theater with their production of What We’re Up Against. Most recently, he was the Director of Production of the Obie and Drama Desk Award winning Pearl Theatre for 10 seasons, Shakespeare on the Sound for 8 seasons, and has been with Red Bull Theater since 2015. Other productions: Post Mortem, Mercy on the Doorstep, Betrothed, Lebensraum, New York Week of Food and Wine, and The 3M Most Gifted Wrapper Contest for 7 years. In a previous life he was a propmaster, working on productions such as Matchmaker (Ford’s Theater), The Exact Center of the Universe (Century), Waverly Gallery, Collected Stories, Mrs. Klein; as well as numerous feature films, television, commercials and music videos.

Lilla Goettler, Business Manager/Company Manager

Lilla Goettler joined the WP team as Business Manager in 2017, after working on and off for the institution in a variety of capacities since 2014. She has worked at a number of companies including: Atlantic Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Scott Rudin Productions. She is also a playwright, director and producer. Her work has most recently been seen at Ars Nova and the Corkscrew Theater Festival. Lilla is a proud alumna of Barnard College.

Lindsy M. Bissonnette, Development Manager

Lindsy M. Bissonnette is incredibly excited to be joining the WP team. She has worked for theater companies in Rhode Island, Georgia, and New York City both as an administrator and as a director. She received her BFA and BA from the University of Rhode Island and received her MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design. She is a recent member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation’s Observership Class and in this years NAMT Festival Observership.

Ronald Truman Kitts, Marketing Associate

Ronald Truman Kitts has fulfilled a number of administrative roles in Off-Broadway Theater. Previously, he served as the Office Manager and Marketing Assistant at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, where he also completed an internship in General Management, and the administrative intern at Tectonic Theater Project . He is a Graduate of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, where he received a degree in Theater, Dance, Arts Administration, & Women/Gender Studies. He continues to work as an actor, dancer, and producer in New York and New Jersey.

ROBERTA PEREIRA, Co-Leader: Producers Lab

Roberta Pereira is a Tony-nominated, Olivier Award-winning theater producer. She is currently the Producing Director of The Playwrights Realm, where she developed and produced several world premieres by early-career playwrights, including The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, which was a finalist for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Roberta is a graduate of Yale School of Drama’s Theater Management program and Wesleyan University. She is originally from Brazil and currently lives in New York City with her daughter. Twitter: @roberta_m_p

STEPHANIE YBARRA, Co-Leader: Producers Lab

Stephanie Ybarra is a New York-based artistic producer with nearly 20 years of experience at theaters across the United States. She was recently announced as the incoming Artistic Director of Baltimore Center Stage after seven years as a member of the senior leadership team at The Public Theater as Director of Special Artistic Projects where she led the Mobile Shakespeare Unit and Public Forum. In addition to The Public, Stephanie serves as curator and casting director of Crossing Borders Latinx Festival at Two River Theater, and co-leads the WP Producers Lab.

Britt Berke, Artistic/Administrative Intern

Britt Berke is a New York-based director. Recently, she directed María Irene Fornés’ Promenade in concert at The Public Theater’s The Rest I Make Up Marathonand Brecht’s A Respectable Wedding in the Barnard College Senior Thesis Festival. She was the SDCF Observer on Fabulation at Signature Theatre (dir. Lileana Blain-Cruz, by Lynn Nottage) and is the Associate Artistic Director of Torn Out Theater (“the naked Shakespeare company”). Britt has directed for the Glicker-Milstein Festival and Columbia Musical Theatre Society and has assistant directed with Kara Feely (Object Collection), Pitr Strait, Shannon Sindelar and Alice Reagan. She worked as the Editorial Assistant at The Drama Review and has interned with Theatre Communications Group and New Georges. Britt is an alumna of Barnard College.

Caity Cook, Artistic Intern

Caity Cook is a New York-based theatre artist and arts administrator. She has worked with non-profit theatres around the country, including with Manhattan Theatre Club, Proctors Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, and Great Lakes Theatre. She is also a writer, critic, and dramaturg. Caity received her B.A. from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.

Samuel-James DeMattio, Artistic Intern

SJ is currently a Senior at Sarah Lawrence College where he studies Directing and Comparative Literature. At Sarah Lawrence he serves as the Parliamentarian of Undergraduate Student Senate and as the Artistic Director of The Group Theatre Project. In addition to his work with WP, he’s currently a Literary Intern at Atlantic Theater Company. He’s worked with Vineyard Theatre as a Producing Intern, The Theater Center as an Administrative Intern/Assistant, and Mint Theater Company as Intern to the Artistic Director. Additionally he’s worked as an Assistant Director on Mint productions of The Suitcase Under The Bed by Teresa Deevy (New York Times Critics Pick) and Days to Come by Lillian Hellman (Wall Street Journal’s “The Best Theater of 2018”).

Sandy Doria, Artistic Intern

Sandy Doria is a performer, writer, and director. She is a co-founder of Static Assembly, a theatre collective which aims at facilitating the creative collaboration between artists of different mediums, skill levels, and aesthetics. This group went on to produce the international Fringe circuit tour of “Edison,” (Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Prague Fringe, Manchester Fringe, Buxton Fringe, and Kingston International Youth Arts Festival) and her first solo-piece, “Kiki,” which premiered at the 16th Prague Fringe Festival. Sandy is a graduate of BFA Directing, Playwriting, and Production from University of the Arts.

Carolyn Friedman, LAB INTERN

Carolyn Friedman is a rising sophomore at Columbia University. She joins the WP team having previously interned for Planned Parenthood SE and SOJOURN. While living in Atlanta, Georgia, she ran away with the circus. She also created, raised funds for, and ran GroundUP Productions, a platform for high school students to direct full length, fully funded productions. Carolyn now performs with Columbia’s CUPlayers, is an actor and writer for Columbia Sketch Comedy Group “Chowdah”, and has performed in Barnard Theatre Department’s senior thesis festival. In her spare time, Carolyn trains and performs with other circus people. If you’re thinking of sending WP a package, you are invited to include Jalapeño Pringles and/or a Bernese Mountain Dog.

Annabel Hoffman, Artistic Intern

Annabel Hoffman is in her first year at Bennington College, she is studying Drama and Equity in Theater. She recently appeared in a production at Bennington of Lily Houghton’s play Of the Woman Came the Beginning of sin, and Through Her We All Die. She is a recent graduate of Laguardia High School, where she directed a production of Spoon River Anthologies, as well as dozens of scenes by prominent women playwrights. She recently worked on Z: The Beginning Of Everything as a production assistant for Amazon Studios. She loves dogs. So much.

Kerrigan Quenemoen, Marketing Intern

Kerrigan Quenemoen is currently a Junior at Dartmouth College where she studies Theatre and Art History. At Dartmouth College, she serves as the Theatre Department’s Peer Advisor and has been active in The Hopkins Center’s Main Stage productions, playing roles such as Julia (1984) and Lauren (Circle Mirror Transformation). She has spent the last few months interning at Northern Stage where she worked in Education and acted in Oslo and Matilda The Musical. This past summer, Kerrigan worked with New York Theatre Workshop during their Dartmouth Residency where she was the Assistant Director to Martha Banta for Mention My Beauty. Additionally, she has worked for Page/ Architects in Houston, TX as their marketing intern for three years.

Willow Wilson, Administrative Intern

Willow Wilson is currently a senior at Marymount Manhattan College where she studies Theatre History with a minor in Psychology. She has recently appeared in a production of Macbeth as well as several smaller projects at MMC. A performer as well as an eclectic nerd, Willow is delighted to be working with WP Theater. Since 2015 she has worked as the head choreographer and instructor for Bloom & Company Summer Production Series, a performing arts camp for children in the Seattle area. In addition to interning at WP, Willow tutors French at MMC’s Center for Academic Support and Tutoring (CAST).

Pearl S. Bark, Director of H. Arf.

Pearl S. Bark has worked in H Arf Departments at various institutions including The Dogwarts School and The Flea. She is on the board of the Snout Society and was recently a contestant on The Great British Barkoff. She holds a degree in Anthropawlogy from Woofsley College where she graduated Fido Beta Kappa.